Historical Knowledge
  • Listen to historical stories, compare past and present
  • Identify changes that have occurred in the local or regional community
  • Identify individuals who had an impact on the local and regional community
  • explain the meaning of community celebrations and traditions
  • develop a simple time line of important events in each student's life
Civics Government
  • Discuss the rights and responsibilities of citizens in the school and then community
  • explain why it is necessary for the community to have a government
  • Identify community leaders, such as city council or town board
  • Identify real people and fictional characters who were good leaders, good citizens and explain qualities that make them admirable, such as honesty and trustworthiness
  • explain their roles people in the community have in making and changing laws
Geography
  • use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places on a map
  • identify the absolute and relative locations of places in the school and community setting
  • locate the local community and the United States on map and globes
  • identify places that are nearby or related to the local community
  • identify map symbols for land and water forms and give examples of these physical features in local communities
  • identify map symbols of cultural or human features - roads, highways, cities
  • use a variety of information resources to identify ways that the physical environment influences human activities in the community
Economics
  • define the three types of productive resources
  • identify community workers who provide goods and services
  • explain that a price is what people pay when they buy a good or service and what people receive when they sell a good or service
  • research goods and services produced in the local community, describe how people may be both producers and consumers
  • explain that because of scarcity, people must make choices and incur opportunity costs
  • define specialization and identify specialized jobs in the school and community
  • explain why people trade for goods and services and explain how money makes trade easier
Individuals, Society and Culture
  • identify some of the responsibilities that individuals have to themselves and others
  • explain how individuals are members of many different groups and compare and contrast the expectations of behavior
  • explain how changes in technology have influenced various traditions
  • identify people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, traditions and careers and explain how they contribute to the community